Author of books:Welcome to Hard Times (1960)Big As Life (1966)The Book of Daniel (1971, novel)Ragtime (1975, novel)Loon Lake (1980, novel)American Anthem (1982)Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella (1984, short stories)World's Fair (1986, novel)Billy Bathgate (1989, novel)Waterworks (1994)City of God (2000)Reporting the Universe (2003, nonfiction)Sweet Land Stories (2004, short stories)The March (2005, novel)